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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by vinbreau on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:01PM (#8569736)
I envision a future where a significant share of the advertising market is comprised of automated ad-bots pitching services and wares to automated web-crawlers. There's something obtusely philosophical about that and what it says about us, though I am not sure what that is.
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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by arbitrage on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:09PM (#8569788)
William Gibson could probably give you some ideas on what that says about us. He started writing about this fictionally decades ago.
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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by pessimizer on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:53PM (#8570034)
Or Frederick Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants

(Or Alvin Lucier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room)

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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by jacquesm on Friday November 07, 2014 @07:05AM (#8572129)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants

That's one of the best SF books ever.

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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by wernercolangelo on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:13PM (#8569813)
Or Stanislaw Lem
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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by klipt on Friday November 07, 2014 @12:22AM (#8571299)
Or Douglas Adams in the Dirk Gently books.
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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by readerrrr on Thursday November 06, 2014 @05:46PM (#8570293)
Really? Could you share the titles.
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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by wpietri on Friday November 07, 2014 @01:57AM (#8571477)
I'd say start with The Cyberiad. It's fun and approachable.
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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by pavel_lishin on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:34PM (#8569939)
Charles Stross, too.
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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by LeonD on Friday November 07, 2014 @04:59AM (#8571849)
That is already happening to an extent, except the wares being promoted are the ads themselves and they're being sold in sub-second auctions where the bidders are different algorithms operating on behalf of various companies.
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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by aaronbrethorst on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:13PM (#8569818)
Somewhat related: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
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Re:Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up onlin... by twrkit on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:43PM (#8569990)
reminds me of Google Will Eat Itself: http://www.gwei.org/
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